A restaurant near my b/f's had a sign up for their breakfast special: "Ermagerd, perncerks!"

See, I think this is from a Kristin Wiig character from Saturday Night Live - the Target Lady. Someone upthread was thinking it was making fun of an unavoidable speech situation, but I'm thinking it's the Target Lady.

Still and all....so, so annoying. It's funny the first 100 times...maybe.

Someone mention "swag", and that reminded me of someone I know who uses (overuses, really) the word "swagtastic". I was thinking, "Okay, I know the 'tastic' part came from the word 'fantastic', but now I have to look up 'swag' to make sure this isn't an insult..."

Nope, it isn't. It just sounds strange to me.

OK, I am lost. "Swag" to me means 2 things - either the trash & trinkets you get for free, typically at a convention, or SWAG = Scientific Wild-A**ed Guess

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What part of v_e = \sqrt{\frac{2GM}{r}} don't you understand? It's only rocket science!

"The problem with re-examining your brilliant ideas is that more often than not, you discover they are the intellectual equivalent of saying, 'Hold my beer and watch this!'" - Cindy Couture

A few that drive me up the wall is when I say thank you, I receive these responses:

"no worries""no problem""it's all good"

What happened to you're welcome?

A response meaning, essentially, "It's no trouble at all," is actually pretty common around the world. In Spanish, for example, you might say "de nada" which means essentially "it's nothing." They're not meaning to insult or annoy you, they're telling you they're happy to do a nice thing for you and that you're not putting them out at all.

A few that drive me up the wall is when I say thank you, I receive these responses:

"no worries""no problem""it's all good"

What happened to you're welcome?

A response meaning, essentially, "It's no trouble at all," is actually pretty common around the world. In Spanish, for example, you might say "de nada" which means essentially "it's nothing." They're not meaning to insult or annoy you, they're telling you they're happy to do a nice thing for you and that you're not putting them out at all.

Some people whom I knew, very long ago, adventurously went on holiday to what was then Czechoslovakia. They tried to master a few basic phrases in the local language, including “thank you very much”; which I gather is something like (anglicised), “motskrat dyekuyi”. Being fairly averagely-silly late-teenagers, they were tickled by this phrase, which they morphed into “muskrat thank-you”. From which they developed a joke by which every time one of the party did something thank-worthy for another, the “thanker” said “muskrat thank-you”; to which the “thankee” had to make a reply involving a North American fauna specimen, and a variation on a gracious response to “thank you” – both, different every time.

Such as – timber wolf you’re welcome bison that’s quite OK skunk my pleasure bear not at all cougar no problem musk-ox the pleasure is mine bald eagle no worries raccoon likewise opossum no trouble beaver that’s fine wolverine glad to help roadrunner it’s good caribou happy to be of service coyote that’s all right mountain lion not in the least cardinal prosim (getting desperate – Czech for “please” – acceptable local “thanks-response”)

The party being all Brits with a less-than-encyclopedic knowledge of North American fauna, both repertoires were run out of before long; but I understand that it was fun while it lasted.

"Awesome!", probably the most overused word in the english language, IMO, and usually applied to things that are far less than that. The miracle of life, the vastness of the universe, or the devastating power of a Category 5 hurricane, for example- tose are things that are truly awesome. But if the fact that I agreed to a simple request, or that I ordered a burger from someone's restaurant menu is sufficient to fill a person with a sense of awe and wonder, they are very easily impressed!

That reminds me of a Bill Engvall routine where he talks about people overusing "awesome"

People, usually teen girls, squealing "OH EM GEEEEEEEEEE!" is like nails on a chalkboard to me. Abbreviations are for when you want to save space and have a character limit. Just say "Oh My Gosh!"

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Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself. You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars. You have a right to be here. Be cheerful, strive to be happy. -Desiderata

Someone mention "swag", and that reminded me of someone I know who uses (overuses, really) the word "swagtastic". I was thinking, "Okay, I know the 'tastic' part came from the word 'fantastic', but now I have to look up 'swag' to make sure this isn't an insult..."

Nope, it isn't. It just sounds strange to me.

OK, I am lost. "Swag" to me means 2 things - either the trash & trinkets you get for free, typically at a convention, or SWAG = Scientific Wild-A**ed Guess

Copied straight from the Urban Dictionary: "swagtastic is when you have amazing game (swag,swagger)Swagtastic derives from the words swagger+fantastic, so literally swagtastic means having fantastic swagger."

I was lost too, which is why I was wondering if I'd been insulted when someone online called me "swagtastic". I was thinking, "Um...thanks? "

Here in the UK, a couple of years ago, someone invented the term 'yummy mummy', referring to an attractive woman with children. It drives me up the wall, for no real reason. I think it's just the childishness of the term.

That's bad, but not quite as bad as one of my peeves: MILF (Mom I'd like to eff)

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"I don't mean to be rude", he began, in a tone that threatened rudeness in every syllable.

Here in the UK, a couple of years ago, someone invented the term 'yummy mummy', referring to an attractive woman with children. It drives me up the wall, for no real reason. I think it's just the childishness of the term.

That's bad, but not quite as bad as one of my peeves: MILF (Mom I'd like to eff)